important lesson i want to take from this place into anywhere else i go to now is that you curate the feed, brother
twitter really conditioned me into thinking that i needed to follow everyone because we met irl or we know each other through a mutual friend or whatever and like... i don't, actually. i don't need to do that. we can know each other irl and be good friends and i can just not follow you on some sites because i just want to have a certain browsing experience that you don't align with. and that's ok, it's nothing personal. not having a "follows you" badge on here is one of the most underrated lifesavers of the social media experience, man.
One of the biggest supporters of my music is this one artist I look up to. We are acquainted, not really friends, and he follows me on nothing except bandcamp. He buys every single one of my releases as soon as they come out and for that, he is the purest supporter of them all.
